Besty Jacob
Optometrist · Coral Springs, FLNPI 1336572643
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,568 of the $11,313 with a category attached, or 66.9%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 26.0% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 133 payments — averaging $85.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Optovue, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$621
- Alcon$614
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00018%
- Travel & lodging$1,68415%
- Food & beverage$7,56867%
- Gifts$170%
- Entertainment$430%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 31 | $2,941 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 6 | $2,123 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 25 | $2,061 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 27 | $1,704 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $621 |
| Alcon | 18 | $614 |
| Optos, Inc. | 8 | $385 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $93 |
| Visionix USA, Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- iScan$2,000
- INFUSE$1,756
- MiSight Contact Lens$1,082
- Acuvue$954
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$725
- EYSUVIS$125
- Rhopressa$125
- Rocklatan$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$124
- ULTRA$124
- Lucentis$108
- Precision7$108
- Clariti Contact Lens$105
- Precision 1$104
How this compares
$11,313 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
Other optometrist in Coral Springs
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
- Robert DavisPembroke Pines$217K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.